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One can downlaod DirectX 10 from the following websites: Microsoft website, DirectX-10, Qt Centre, PC Games Hardware, Softtonic, Kioskea, Toms Hardware, Tech Spot, to name a few.
No. The hardware in the card only supports DirectX 6 interfaces. You can use it with later versions of DirectX, but games that rely on hardware rendering of newer versions will probably not work.
Windows Vista. DirectX is an API, not a program, and as such it has no specific requirements. To use DirectX 10 hardware features, you need a capable video card.
Microsoft DirectX (all versions) is a set of application program interfaces that allows programmers to code for hardware devices without previously knowing which hardware will actually reside on any given machine. The DirectX program does this by using a middle-man interpreter that interprets generalized commands into commands tailored for the hardware that is installed on the machine that the application is running on. Each new version of DirectX adds to the library of interfaces that the translator can translate to.
DirectX 9.0c is not available for Windows 7; to actually install DirectX 9.0c, you would have to downgrade to Windows XP (any edition). In order to play games which require DirectX 9.0c without downgrading your installation of Windows, you must upgrade to DirectX 10.1 or later. DirectX 10.0 (initially included in Windows 7) did not include support for DirectX 9.0c, a decision that Microsoft ultimately repealed when DirectX 10.1 was released.
There is no need to download DirectX 3. Versions of DirectX up to DirectX 9 are backwards-compatible. So if you have one version, you can use games and programs that require a previous version. Besides, the DirectX 3 installerwasmeant to be used only on Windows 95, and would probably cause problems if installed on later versions.
No. You may be able to use it with a DirectX 9 game, but the hardware does not support it, so you would have to use software rendering.
DX9 is a shorter version of the word DirectX 9. There are different ones like DirectX 8 but DirectX 10 is the most popular today. If you want more information on it just type it in on google.com or look it up on tigerdirect.com
If you are running Windows and have DirectX installed, press Windows logo key+R, type "dxdiag" (no quotes!) into the text box and click "Run" or something similar. That will give you information about the DirectX software and some related hardware such as graphics card and sound card.
DirectX 10 is the newest standard.
Many will, but some will not. If the program does not install / run normally, try running it in Compatibility Mode. Some older games may also have problems with newer commodity hardware that does not support older versions of DirectX.
There is no need to download DirectX for Vista. it already bundles the latest version of DirectX.